25 Times Disney Films Were Scarier Than Real Horror Films

101 Dalmatians (1961) - Cruella de Vil basically wants to do more murders in one film than Freddy Krueger, Leatherface and Chucky’s franchises combined and it’s filed in the kids’ section for some reason.

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Aladdin (1992) - Disney deliberately lulled us into a false sense of security by giving Jafar a parrot so they could freak us the eff out even more intensely when he turns into a giant snake.

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Bambi (1942) - Pretty much everyone you know has cried over this scene. Imagine being responsible for that? (Side note: If you didn't cry, you're officially dead inside.)

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Beauty And The Beast (1991) - So Beast shows up and, after we’ve all gone YAY, SHE’S SAVED, the film’s love interest turns all feral and we go WHO ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE SUPPORTING IN THIS SCENE?! THERE’S LITERALLY ONLY MONSTERS HERE!

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The Black Cauldron (1985) - Forget the PG certificate, this should’ve got a XXX rating to keep it in horror dungeons where it belongs - as far away from us as possible. Every single second The Horned King spends on screen makes us want to cry.

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Fantasia (1940) - Night On Bald Mountain tells the tale of a gigantic mega-demon conquering darkness and death to fling nightmare-fodder into the minds of unexpecting children. Sweet dreams, kids.

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Frozen (2013) - Oh yeah, baby - we went there. Maybe we should ‘LET IT GO’ but effing hell, the opening is beyond bleak. Also, the bit with the snarling wolves in the forest and ALL YOU CAN SEE IS THE FLESH-EATING BLOOD-DOGS’ HATE-FILLED EYES.

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Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) - This is a literal song called Hellfire, sung by a dude who’s so obsessed with the lead female that he’s singing about how if she doesn’t make him her bae he’ll literally burn her alive with actual fire…

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Lady & The Tramp (1955) - We can't forget the truly chilling moment when a GROTESQUE RAT TRIES TO EAT A BABY. This happens during yet another thunderstorm because the concept of vermin chowing down on an innocent infant’s flesh isn’t horrific enough.

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Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) - Scrooge McDuck is hung over his own grave, which for some reason is a passageway to Satan's palace, by a ghost. Basically, the cute fuzzy duck faces a more serious punishment for liking money than most mass murderers.

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The Lion King (1994) - Mufasa saves his son Simba before HIS OWN BROTHER digs his claws deep into Mufasa’s paws, sending him spiralling from a great height to land under the hoofs of a million stampeding wildebeest (wildebast*rds more like).

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Pinocchio (1940) - This is a film that follows a bleak kidnapping scene with a grotesquely surreal sequence in which our hero’s body twists and contorts into a braying jackass. It looks painful. That’s because it is painful.

Ratatouille (2007) - You’ve probably repressed the bit where Django attempts to put his son off hanging around with humans by showing him a shop-front display consisting entirely of the HANGING CORPSES OF HIS FELLOW RATS.

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The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (1949) - Ichabod Crane goes into meltdown when a HEADLESS MAN ON A HORSE appears, turns on some atmospheric red lights and starts cackling like he's just read a Twitter exchange between Zayn Malik and Calvin Harris. WTF?

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Snow White And The Seven Dwarves (1937) - Snow White’s just chilling in the forest when WTF WTF WTF the forest just turns into a scene from Evil Dead II for absolutely no reason whatsoever. It's like getting a glimpse into the mind of a maniac.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - So fear-worthy Stephen King named it as a key influence on his own writing, this is the sort of film that keeps poltergeists up at night.

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Tarzan (1999) - A thunder-storm, an animal getting shot, a machete-wielding maniac chasing the hero, a public-hanging, and a corpse swinging in the night sky, lit only by lightning. Tarzan's baddie dies in a way that makes Friday The 13th look restrained.

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The Black Hole (1979) - Even the good robots in this thing - clearly ‘inspired’ by R2D2 - are pretty freaky, and the less we say about this film’s dude in a black helmet, the better.

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The Little Mermaid (1989) - Think about it, the film is about a monster that lives underwater and disguises itself as a human in order to seduce its prey. And that’s just Ariel!

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Toy Story 3 (2010) - Those adorable toys who can talk teach us that death is real and it's coming for all us - me first, then you, then your baby sister. Stop sobbing, it'll attract the monsters.

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Toy Story (1995) - The scene where Woody creeps around Sid’s bedroom, encountering twisted toy mutants made us run from the cinema screaming, ‘My eyes, my eyes’ (and also humming ‘You’ve Got A Friend In Me’ because goddamn that’s a catchy song).

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Up (2009) - If you’re not frightened by a sequence in which someone watches their loved one slowly waste away before resigning themselves to a lifetime of loneliness, then you’re made of sturdier stuff than we are.

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Wall-E (2008) - A merciless robot with one glowing red eye pulses fatal doses of electricity through the body of his child-like victim, while his girlfriend helplessly watches on, screaming. Wall-E? Nast-E more like.

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The Watcher In The Woods (1980) - Disney's horror film FOR KIDS is so scary Disney told parents to see it before they showed it to their children. Seriously. That happened.

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